Fordham drivers get their glass done at 1747 Jerome Avenue, a mile and a half straight down the same avenue, under the same elevated 4 line that runs past Fordham Road. Walk in, no appointment required. A chip is finished inside half an hour, side panes take roughly sixty minutes, and a windshield needs 60 to 90 minutes before curing time even starts.
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The busiest shopping district in the borough is also one of the easiest places to lose a mirror or a quarter glass. Buses pull in every block along Fordham Road, delivery trucks park themselves in the second lane with the hazards going, and everyone squeezes past on the left with four inches to spare. Cars from these blocks show up at our door all day, usually without ringing first, because the drive is short enough to take a chance on. We do not run slots or a waiting list. Give us the year, make and model at the counter and within a minute you know whether your glass is on our shelf.
Stocking the common panes is what makes that possible. Door and back glass for the sedans, small SUVs and livery cars that fill this part of the Bronx go in the same day, about an hour on the bench once the pane is in hand. Windshields are $250 to $450 installed for most vehicles, and anything with a camera behind the mirror gets its ADAS recalibration done here rather than sent out somewhere. Chips are $60 to $150, frequently nothing under comprehensive, and finished while you stand there.
Fordham Road is the spine, running east to west with the Bx12 Select Bus Service along its whole length and Fordham Plaza at Third Avenue acting as the transfer point for half the borough. Metro-North stops at Fordham station on the Harlem Line, the 4 train is elevated over Jerome Avenue at Fordham Road and Kingsbridge Road, and the B and D run under the Grand Concourse a few blocks west. Add Webster Avenue, Valentine Avenue and Bathgate Avenue and you get a grid where curb space turns over every couple of minutes. The university campus, the Botanical Garden and the zoo all sit on this side, with Belmont immediately east, so the volume never really drops off. Driving it is stop and start: buses at every corner, shoppers stepping off the curb mid-block, and lane widths that shrink to nothing behind a double-parked truck.
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Tight passes cause most of what we see from here. Threading between a stopped bus and a double-parked box truck is how side glass and mirrors meet the corner of somebody's tailgate, and a quarter window loses that argument every time. Loading work along the commercial blocks means pallets, hand trucks and cargo swinging past parked cars all day long. Buses kick stones off the roadway into the windshield of whatever is behind them at every pull-out. Webster Avenue and the Grand Concourse carry the kind of settled, patched pavement that sends a jolt through the body and turns a quiet chip into a running crack. Cars left on the side streets around the campus overnight also draw the smash-and-grab crowd, so Monday mornings bring us a steady run of punched-out door windows from this ZIP.
Straight down Jerome Avenue is the simplest way in. From Fordham Road, follow the avenue south under the elevated 4 past Kingsbridge Road and Burnside Avenue, and 1747 is about a mile and a half along, between the Mount Eden Avenue and 176th Street stops. Eight to twelve minutes on a normal day. The Grand Concourse works as well, cutting west on any of the cross streets near the bottom. The el keeps that stretch dark and narrow, so watch the columns and the curb lane on the last few blocks. We are open 07:00 to 18:30, six days a week. Where the car is not safe to move at all, the mobile van comes out to you instead.
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The shop is faster, and the drive is short. A mile and a half down Jerome puts you in a bay with the glass, the tools and the recalibration gear all in one place, which is why we treat mobile service as the fallback rather than the main event. Where a car genuinely should not be driven, we send the van and quote any travel charge first.
For most of what drives around Fordham, yes. Common windshields and door glass for popular models live on our shelf, and that is the whole reason walking in works here. Anything rarer or sensor-heavy we can usually source the same day if it is in the region, occasionally a day out. Give us the VIN and you get a straight answer before you spend the trip.
A chip takes under thirty minutes, so most people simply wait for it rather than come back later. It runs $60 to $150 depending on the damage, and comprehensive coverage often pays the whole thing, because an insurer would much rather buy a repair than a windshield. Get it handled before the weather turns cold, since a chip left through a freeze becomes a replacement.
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| Sunday | Closed |